Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of cash sums and properties, with their values, transferred to the State by the religious orders under the institutions redress scheme, in tabular form; the amount outstanding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40311/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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In response to the call for further substantial contributions towards the costs of redress made in the aftermath of the publication of the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (the Ryan Report), many of the congregations that were party to the 2002 Indemnity Agreement made voluntary offers which they valued at €348.51m, including cash, property and other elements. Subsequent offers and the value of a particular property offer amounted to €4.1m, bringing the total contribution offers to €352.61m. As the Deputy will be aware, the Government agreed to use €110m, the cash contributions, to fund the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (Caranua).

To date, some €82.9m, comprising post Ryan Report contributions from congregations, associated interest and cash from property disposals has been lodged to the special investment account opened by the National Treasury Management Agency pursuant to the Residential Institution Statutory Act, 2012. I understand that outstanding cash contributions are expected to be received from congregations between now and 2018. The figure of €82.9m referred to above includes contributions of €81.5m as follows:

Brothers of Charity€1.5m

Christian Brothers€8m

Daughters of Charity€6m

Daughters of the Heart of Mary€1.5m

De La Salle Brothers€1m (€0.055m interest)

Dominican Order€6.5m

Oblates of Mary Immaculate€20m

Hospitaller Order of St. John of God €1m

Presentation Brothers€3.6m

Presentation Sisters€4m

Religious Sisters of Charity€2m

Sisters of Our Lady of Charity€1.5m

Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy €24.9m (€1.044m interest)

Sisters of St. Clare€1m

Sisters of St. Louis€1m

Work is underway on the transfer of those properties offered by the congregations in the aftermath of the publication of the Ryan Report which were accepted in principle.